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855 Apple's Early Days: Massive Oral History Shares Stories About Young Wozniak and Jobs

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 03/30/2026 03:34 EDT

Apple's Early Days: Massive Oral History Shares Stories About Young Wozniak and Jobs

Apple's 50th anniversary is this week — and Fast Company's Harry McCracken just published an 11,000-word oral history with some fun stories from Apple's earliest days and the long and winding road to its very first home computers:





Steve Wozniak, cofounder, Apple: I told my dad when I was in high school, "I'm going to own a computer someday." My dad said, "It costs as much as a house." And I sat there at the table — I remember right where we were sitting — and I said, "I'll live in an apartment." I was.

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